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ˆ HAVE SEVERAL PISTOLS ANS RIFESall registered. I may be dying in two to three years. my daughter son-in-law and grandkids live near me. my wife doesn't care about guns. what are your thoughts?
 
Posts: 245 | Location: Ventura, California | Registered: August 22, 2011Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Are any of your firearms heirloom worthy? If so perhaps leave a few for posterity? Outside of that instead of burdening family members or wife with selling them, auction the collection or sale them consignment. Then invest the money for your wife.


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Coop, Are you ahooting them? If not, sell them. Go on vacation, put the cash in the bank, give your kids the cash, donate the cash, buy a Vespa, etc. Basically, do what ever you want with them. If you are shooting them, keep shooting them until you die! Your heirs will get them and do what they want with them when you are gone.


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Coop, Are you ahooting them? If not, sell them. Go on vacation, put the cash in the bank, give your kids the cash, donate the cash, buy a Vespa, etc. Basically, do what ever you want with them. If you are shooting them, keep shooting them until you die! Your heirs will get them and do what they want with them when you are gone.

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And I would add that you leave instructions as to the approximate worth of each gun and recommended means of disposing of them, i.e., Sig Forum Classifieds, Gun Broker, etc., should your heirs not want to keep them. They may not have a clue as to what to do with them.


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Originally posted by GarandGuy:
Are any of your firearms heirloom worthy? If so perhaps leave a few for posterity? Outside of that instead of burdening family members or wife with selling them, auction the collection or sale them consignment. Then invest the money for your wife.

First, take care of your wife.
But if she doesn't need the money leave them to someone who will enjoy them and keep ahooting them. Wink



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First off, sorry to hear about your situation. And I hope the "might be" turns into "not".
Are the kids into guns? If so, give them 1st pick. Sell the rest and make some memories, if you're able.
 
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Sorry to learn of your situation.
What what hdur said.
 
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Yes, I'm also sorry and hope the doctors are wrong.

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Sorry to hear of your terrible diagnosis.

Hudr nailed it.


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I'm in a similar situation, kidney failure, arthritis (RA & OA -no cartilage in left wrist-bone to bone, right wrist is not much better) degenative disc disease in back. Before my wife talked me into dialysis I sold about half of my guns, it's been over a year since I fired a gun. My youngest son was my hunter/gun nut, he died in 2009. My other son hunted with me but me has no interest in my guns (he has a 22 rifle and pistol, a 12 gauge shotgun, a 270 rifle and a .380 pistol). So I have about 25 guns left, my wife has several handguns and a house shotgun so she doesn't need or want them, no grandkids, no relatives who hunt and only one who shoots and he is in another state. So this summer I will be selling off more of my collection. No other option that I can think of.
 
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Just sell them off.
I am in the process of downsizing the last couple of years myself.
Did not sell a one but gave a total of eight to friends and a couple to two family members
 
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sell'em and get it over with , if I lived in your neighborhood I would offer to do it for you .





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what are your thoughts?


Select a favorite pistol, revolver, and rifle to hold onto for now, and take the others to your favorite gun shop. Ask them to sell them on consignment.
 
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I have my Dad's guns and every time I shoot and or clean them he's with me in sprit. Now my grandson will get them after I am gone. I have made my wishes known, it will be nice to be remembered in the same way.
 
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I have a TON of guns. I have no idea what will become of them.

That being said I have my VERY beloved grandfather's (Puppy) Winchester "thutty/thutty" and even though it rarely gets shot I take that rifle out now and then just to be close to him. Same thing with my great uncles Winchester 62.

Point is even if they don't get shot they might mean something to somebody you mean something to.

Prayers and good thoughts for you and yours.


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Damn Coop...sorry to see this posted...first of all, you are and your family are in my thoughts and prayers...second, about your firearms...if you can sell them and leave the money to your loved ones (wife)...do so. I do not know what to add to this other than this Frown


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A good place to safely sell them is Cabela's Their gun library is very fair, and gives the current market value. I have worked with them before.


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You could post them in the classifieds. I am sure many of the members here would give them good homes.




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I have thought about this before. Here is what I would do if I had no shooting relatives:

Go to my gun club president (or nearby one affiliated with the NRA if you don't belong to one) and let them know you want to sell your collection for very reasonable prices (too good to pass up).

Set up a range day / announced sale date. I will sell them all in one day at highly reduced cash prices. Like an AR for $200. A Sig pistol for $250. A Glock for $200.

A couple reasons why: they would ALL get sold in one day. They would all go to folks who will appreciate the guns. They are all going to known shooters / non-felons. My family would not be presented with the hassle of clearing them out.

That's what I would do. Not trying to get top dollar. Trying to make them all go away in one pass and knowing they are going to folks who could appreciate them. Win - Win.

If you want to sell for top dollar / over the internet classified section - it greatly adds to the complexity / hassle and markedly prolongs the process...

YMMV.

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I have thought about this before. Here is what I would do if I had no shooting relatives:

Go to my gun club president (or nearby one affiliated with the NRA if you don't belong to one) and let them know you want to sell your collection for very reasonable prices (too good to pass up).

Set up a range day / announced sale date. I will sell them all in one day at highly reduced prices. Like an AR for $200. A Sig pistol for $250. A Glock for $200.

A couple reasons why: they would ALL get sold in one day. They would all go to folks who will appreciate the guns. They are all going to known shooters / non-felons. My family would not be presented with the hassle of clearing them out.

That's what I would do. Not trying to get top dollar. Trying to make them all go away in one pass and knowing they are going to folks who could appreciate them.

YMMV.


This is what some members of our local club have done as well. Our president has his FFL and it made the transactions quick and easy for everyone.
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